{"id":67412,"date":"2025-07-01T01:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/bad-company-private-equity-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:43:02","slug":"bad-company-private-equity-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/bad-company-private-equity-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$0.00<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Jul 01, 2025 01:43:02 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B0DGY68D52?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.<\/p>\n<p>Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate.<\/p>\n<p>Private equity executives, meanwhile, are not only among the wealthiest people in American society, but have grown to become modern-day barons with outsized influence on our politics and legislation. CEOs of firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo are rewarded with seats in the Senate and on the boards of the country\u2019s most august institutions; meanwhile, entire communities are hollowed out as a result of their buyouts. Workers lose their jobs. Communities lose their institutions. Only private equity wins.<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell\u2019s Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security.<\/p>\n<p>In the tradition of deeply human reportage like Matthew Desmond\u2019s Evicted, Megan Greenwell pulls back the curtain on shadowy multibillion dollar private equity firms, telling a larger story about how private equity is reshaping the economy, disrupting communities, and hollowing out the very idea of the American dream itself. Timely and masterfully told, Bad Company is a forceful rebuke of America\u2019s most consequential, yet least understood economic forces.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers. 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